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Friday, September 14, 2012  A teenager accused of breaking into a home and robbing a mother and her thre children at gunpoint has been arrested, according to the Columbia Police Department.

Thursday, July 05, 2012  A yacht full of fireworks watchers capsized on the Fourth of July, killing three children and sending 24 others into the Long Island Sound, where many were rescued by fellow boaters, police said Thursday.

Thursday, May 03, 2012  Authorities say the shooting death of an 11-year-old Greenville boy last week was an accident.

Monday, April 30, 2012  Greenville County officials are investigating the shooting death of an 11-year-old boy.

Monday, September 19, 2011  A spokesman for Attorney General Alan Wilson says his office recommended Monday that John Moses Ragin be returned to Virginia. Ragin is accused of stabbing to death his wife and her three children, ages 6, 10 and 15. Their bodies were found in their burned Newport News, Va., apartment Aug. 19.